Vegetable cutter



E. HUMAN. I VEGETABLE CUTTER. ArPuqAnoN FILEDIAPBPIZQ 1922 Pdtent edSept. 19,1922.

WITNESSES 7 50 ATTORN Patented Sept. 19, 1922.

EDWIN Human, or iirrtwauxn'n, Wisconsin.

. VEGETABLE c im..; 1

Application filed epril 17, L922. seal no;" 554,21s.

To ctlli'ehomit may concern: N I v,

Be it known that I, EDWIN HUMAN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in th e countyof Milwaukee and State of I/Visconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vegetable Cutters,

of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are a part of'this specification.

The invention relates to vegetable cutters.

The general object of the'invention is to provide a vegetable cutter of simple construction and one capable of slicing up, grating or otherwise cutting a'large quantity of vegetables "in a short period of time. Specifically the'object of the inventionQis to provide a vegetable cutter in which the vegetables are fed to the cutters by gravity and are held against the cutters by means hereinafter described.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the several features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings: Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional view through a device embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, parts being broken away; Fig. 3 is a detail view, similar to.

Fig. 1, showing'the lower end of the device provided with a grating plate; Fig. 4 is a detail bottom view ofthe v grating plate shown in Fig. 8; Fig. 5 is a view of a cutting of shaft 11 by a thumb-screw 12 mounted on the threaded end 18 of said shaft.

The shaft 11 is mounted in atubular housing 14 which is secured at its upper end to a transverse frame'member 15 preferably detachably secured to the upper portion'of the shell by thumb screws 16 passing through the shell and bifurcations 17 of said member. A ball thrust bearing 18 is interposed between the lower end of the housing and the cutting plate- The shaft 11 carries a shaft.

To feed the vegetables to thecutters I provide a pair of spiral chutes 25. winding round the 'tubula'rlmember 14 infopposite bevel gear 19. meshing' 'with a bevelgear 2O I on a horizontally disposed shaft 21 joi1rnailed in bearings 22.jofi the frame member 15. Thisshaft' 21 may be driven power applied to a pulley 22 mounted thereon, or may be-turned by hand, as ahand-crank 23 applied to "the squared enf 2et' of said directions. These chutes" are formed, by i? spirally extending members 26 secu'redto or:

formed integral with the member 14 and fit.-

ting closelywithinjthe shelland; having bosses 28at their. lower'en'ds tore'ceive bolts 29 which pass through the shell. Tl1e mem bers 26 maybe rigidly "connected to the shell, but I prefer to detachably mount. them inthe shell so that they maybefreadily. removed from the shell on theyloosening of the bolts 29 and the screws 16-for the purpose of cleaning the parts. these members 26are' spaced a'short distance abovethe cutting'plate and have a roughened or toothed surface 30. I

The cutting plates may be provided are mounted. Threaded studs 34 are mount ed in the plate and carry nuts 35 and36 engageable on opposite sides of'each-blade ad acent the. slots 37 .therein. The adjust- The lower ends .of I

with ,various forms of cutters. In Figsfl and I show a cutting plate 31 having slotted portions 32in which straight edge blades 33 g ment of the nuts varies the angle which the blade makes with the flat surface 38 of the plate 31. In place of a straight edge blade a blade 39'with a serrated cutting edge 40 may be used. For grating vegetables a plate 41 having sector-shaped delive ryfslots 42 carries a cutting plate 43v which. is provided with the usualtoothedv edge grating openings {14. 1

With either of the forms ofcutting plates secured to the shaft 19the rotationof said plate by the mechanism previously described causes vegetables, deposited in the chutes 25 and moved down saidychutes by gravity, to be wedged 1n between the lower roughened end portions 30 of the members 26 and the cutting plate, with the resultthat one or".

more of the vegetables so held is subjected to the application of the cutting blades either to be sliced the blade 33, shredded by the blades 40 or grated. by the grater formed by the plate 43. The rotation of the shaft 11 is such as to move the vegetables to the wedged position above described, that is, the vegetables fed down by one chute are wedged in between the bottom plate and the bottom portion of the other chute, with the result that all of the vegetables in the chute may be completely subjected to the cutting action and the cut vegetables discharged into a pan 45 in the space below the cutting device.

By using two chutes on opposite sides of the device the thrusts against the cutting blade are equalized to a great extent so that the blade will not have any tendency to tip with'respect to the shaft 11, and, furthermore, the capacity of the machine is greatly increased.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a vegetable cutter, the combination of a pair of vertically disposed oppositely extending spiral feed chutes, and a revoluble member at the bottom of said chutes providedv with cutters, said chutes cooperating Wlllll'SELlCl member-to hold the vegetables against said member during they cut? ting operation.

2. In a vegetable cutter, the combination of a pair of vertically disposed oppositely extending spiral feed chutes, the lower ends of the members forming the chute having a roughened portion against which the vege tables are wedged, and a revoluble member below the members forming the chute provided with cutters.

3. In a vegetable cutter, the combination of a shell, a pair of vertically disposed oppositely extending spiral feed chutes including a centrally disposed shaft housing, and spiral extending members connected with said housmg and fitting inside said shell, means for .removably securing said' ED'WIN HUMAN. 

